Radfems Being Depicted As "ugly" Will Never Stop Being So Ironically Funny To Me? Like You're Going To

the girls at my school have to word their period cramps as 'stomach pain', otherwise they cant lay down in the nurse/get sent home because 'cramps arent a reason to miss class!'

the ONLY difference is that we are womyn. all the sudden our pain isnt real pain, just because men cant relate to this. the second our pain stems from us being female, we cant take a break because these establishments see female pain as secondary to male pain.

i could be having debilitating cramps, but a boy with a stomachache would be prioritized over me because womyn are expected to just take their pain as the normal to not disturb men.

girl don't be sorry for not posting!! not posting on tumblr isn't the end of the world, just do what you gotta do!

ily nymph 😭

people only bring this up when you talk about issues they dont think are important tho and idk shit abt this

"can men be lesbians?" bestie in 100 countries women can't be lesbians is this really the most pressing issue rn

the idea that men should be included in feminism is actually insane. why would womyn include their oppressors in a movement for their liberation?? if men didn't exist, we wouldn't need feminism!

go through r/roastme and look at the womyns posts. the comments are literally just sexualizing them no matter what they look like with a sprinkle of fatherless jokes mixed in.

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if there was no patriarchy, no gender roles, no men.

I imagine I'd be more secure in myself. I would be less afraid to allow my body to exist as it naturally is. I could jump into a lake shirtless and never feel the real or imagined lingering eyes on my back. There would be no "man-peering-through-the-keyhole" psychological phenomenon women experience - the urge to always be palatable to the male gaze. I could feel completely comfortable cutting all my hair off in the summer so I could comfortably tend to my garden without sweat dripping from my hair. There would be no "does this hairstyle fit my face" bullshit that men interestingly never subject themselves to. I would walk home alone at night in the city and I wouldn't feel the urge to check behind me every minute. I could stretch my arms high in the air without the urge to immediately put them back down lest others see that I am human enough to grow body hair - to be human as a woman in this world is to be a beast - I could lay on the warm sands of a beach without the urge to cover my legs with a towel for the same reason. I wouldn't ever feel anxiety when making connections with other women because I would know with confidence they won't sell me out for a corn chip of validation from the patriarchy, because there wouldn't be one. Other women wouldn't look down on me for existing against the grain. And there wouldn't be the other kind of human to beat, rape or kill me for the same. Other women wouldn't be pushing their daughters, themselves, or me to conform to the identity of "decorative object to be oggled" because there would never have been anyone to start the demand.

I could rip my clothes off and grow my claws, my fangs. I could become the beast I'm meant to be. I could run to a hilltop with my sisters under a full moon and dance around a fire while we howl "This is freedom! This is freedom! This is freedom!" We could laugh heartily, loudly. We could feast decadently on all the delicious things we deny ourselves. We could take up all of the space we desire. We could love - truly love - one another and the Earth. Life would flourish.

I am deeply saddened that will never be the world.

I hope you don't mind, I'd like to recommend you some authors for your journey as a young Feminist.

Audre Lorde and bell hooks are two of the most prominent Black, Visionary, Feminists to have ever written. They are foundational staples in Visionary Feminism.

Lorde's short speeches "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" and "There Is No Hierarchy Of Oppressions" are staples of Feminist literature and if you have access to your local library they can be found in The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, curated by Roxane Gay. "Sister Outsider" is also a staple book of hers.

I specifically recommend "Feminism is for Everybody" by hooks as well as looking into some of the many talks she was a part of before she passed that are all uploaded on YouTube.

Judith Butler is a highly academic read, but very easy to listen to if you look up interviews with them. If you're interested in higher academia Feminist thought, "Gender Trouble" is a great place to start and "Who's Afraid of Gender" really gets into current events and modern politics.

Leslie Feinberg is also a staple lesbian author. You can find a free PDF copy of "Stone Butch Blues" on Feinberg's website - lesliefeinberg.net.

I also recommend Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mikki Kendall, and María Lugones. Crenshaw is a key voice regarding Critical Race Theory and she has many speeches and talks that you can find on YouTube. Mikki Kendall is the author of "Hood Feminism" - which is a staple on my own shelf. Lugones was an Argentine feminist philosopher and similar to Butler, she was deeply academic. Her work is in dialogue with another Peruvian humanist thinker, Aníbal Quijano, regarding colonialism and power.

Most of those books should be available at your local library and almost of these thinkers have talks and speeches freely available on YouTube as well. I truly wish you well in your growth as a young Feminist voice.

i really appreciate this!! ill definitely look into these the next time i go to the library ：）

I have an idea!

instead of saying 'op is terf' under every fucking post which was made by women and provides valid information you should say 'op is a rapist and an abuser' under every men post. say 'op thinks porn is cool' and 'he cheated on his wife' GET FUCKING REAL. oh but I see, you are only against oppression if it's men who suffer

a fellow radfem minor?? this is crazyyy

also i love your blog, apologies for all the sudden reblogs and likes lmao

HII i feel like theres only a few of us on tumblr 💔 i barely see anyone under 20

Hiii just wanted to say I’m so happy to see other teenage girls with radfem ideologies!!! I’m 16 and yall fr give me hope for our generation of girls 😌🫶

helloo! i honestly think the amount of teen radfems is growing, ive been seeing alot more of us lately :)